11.   The court ordered their conditional release but Lucien and Jan Verkest were remanded in custody late Monday on charges of fraud after the prosecution appealed.

12.   The New Straits Times learnt that both Badarol and Paharuddin were given conditional releases yesterday.

13.   They remain under investigation but were granted conditional release Friday by a Brussels court.

14.   He made a brief appearance before a Tunis court, where his lawyer asked for his conditional release and a postponement of the trial.

15.   He spent two months in prison in Paris before being granted conditional release.

16.   A former senior French health official jailed in an AIDS-tainted blood scandal lost an appeal Tuesday for conditional release.

17.   A conditional release would help prepare a better defence, the lawyer said.

18.   An exiled Tunisian human rights group Tuesday hailed the conditional release by the authorities in Tunis of two jailed opposition leaders on humanitarian grounds.

19.   But the conditional release, headlined on all national newspapers on Saturday, was rejected by his family, political associates and the opposition as a political manoeuvre.

20.   Cicek was part of the hunger strike and was granted a six-month conditional release in October as his health failed, the IHD told AFP.